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The health of individuals and the health of communities are linked in so many ways, from zoning to access to fresh food, safe housing, safe streets and parks, and proper medical care. How is this growing realization affecting practice for both community development organizations and health care organizations? What does it take for these two separate worlds to partner toward shared goals?
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Fit to Live in: From Ordinances to Outcomes in Habitability, a Shelterforce webinar
What makes a home habitable? What makes habitability laws successful? In this webinar, an organizer in New Orleans and a representative from a nonprofit working with communities across the country affected by vacancy and abandonment share their perspectives.
Program Mismatches Keep Repair Funds Unused
A Massachusetts initiative uncovers how fragmented programs make healthy homes harder to achieve—and helps local leaders reduce the friction.
New Mexico Program Tackles Repair Needs and Affordability
A program started in Roswell, New Mexico, has gone statewide. Here’s how Rehab-2-Rental works, and what’s to come.
Beyond Basic Health Standards: Designing for Well-being
An architect’s guide to affordable housing design that goes beyond the baseline.
Healthy Homes or Hollow Promises in New Orleans?
The Healthy Homes Ordinance is supposed to help fix New Orleans’s deteriorating rental housing stock. But three years in, many “certified habitable” apartments still have leaking roofs, black mold, and dangerous heat. What went wrong?
Why Does Habitability Matter? Health and Our Housing Stock
Whether your home is safe and suitable for healthy living depends on a variety of factors. Shelterforce puts habitability under the lens to show how problems like inadequate heating, water damage, and pest infestations negatively affect your health and further exacerbate the housing crisis.
RAD Plan in Chelsea Will Build in Mixed-Income Housing—But Disrupt Low-Income Seniors
A public housing redevelopment plan in Manhattan will add mixed-income housing—but some of the first wave of tenants who would have to leave are refusing to go.
Occupational Therapy Can Keep Seniors Out of Nursing Homes
Supportive housing residents are getting older. In an era of reduced funding for nursing home care, occupational therapy can help them age in place.
What Can We Learn From COVID-Era Rental Assistance Programs?
The programs that kept some tenants housed during the pandemic also left out key groups of vulnerable renters. Their exclusion provides key lessons for the future of such programs.
How These Schools Worked With Community Groups to Fight College Homelessness
College-focused rapid rehousing aims to support students facing housing instability all the way through graduation.
‘Meet Me at the Intersection of Housing’ with Guest Marcia Wright-Soika
Shelterforce’s CEO and Publisher Schlonn Hawkins chats with the executive director of FamilyWorks Seattle.
What Started as Emergency Housing Could Offer a Model for Ending Homelessness in Delaware
Four years ago, New Castle County bought a hotel to provide safe housing for its most vulnerable residents. That property evolved away from purely emergency housing to a very different, more holistic, model of care.